Johnson, Adam H. - How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza [Paperback]

This critical examination by Adam H. Johnson dissects the role of the US corporate media in enabling and inciting the devastating campaign of mass killing in Gaza starting in October 2023. Drawing from deep, original data-driven analysis, the book unpacks how major news outlets systematically sanitized Israel’s war crimes, obscured the US’s central role, and dehumanized the Palestinian people.

As noted in the foreword by Noura Erakat, this work shows how anti-Palestinian racism among elite liberals and institutions primed Western audiences for genocide through painstaking documentation.

• Indictment of US corporate media's complicity in enabling mass killing campaigns.
• Dissects propaganda mechanics: selective empathy, strategic omissions, overt racism, and repetition of state-sanctioned falsehoods.
• Analyzes coverage by outlets including the New York Times, CNN, and MSNBC.
• Argues the genocide could not have been sustained without active, ongoing media complicity.
• All royalties from the book will be donated to the Middle East Children’s Alliance.

Written by media analyst and podcast co-host Adam H. Johnson. Features a foreword contributed by Noura Erakat, author of Justice for Some.

• Author: Adam H. Johnson
• Contributor: Noura Erakat
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition
• Language: English
• Print Length: 256 pages
• Publication Date: April 21, 2026
• ISBN-10: 0745351654
• ISBN-13: 978-0745351650
• Dimensions: 150 x 15 x 250mm (15 x 1.5 x 25 cm)
• Weight: 324 g
• Publisher: Pluto Press

This book offers a clear and forceful analysis of how propaganda functions in modern conflict reporting, focusing on the dishonest coverage of war crimes and campus protests.